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Digital Business Automation Ideas


This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Please use the following category to raise ideas for these offerings for all environments (traditional on premises, containers, on cloud):
  • Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights

  • Business Automation Workflow (BAW) - including BAW, Business Process Manager, Workstream Services, Business Performance Center, Advanced Case Management

  • Content Services - FileNet Content Manager

  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

  • Content Services - Navigator

  • Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

  • Content Services - Content Collector for SAP

  • Content Services - Enterprise Records

  • Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)

  • Datacap

  • Automation Document Processing

  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.


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Pinned ideas

PINNED SQL statements in Dashboard Widgets
I think using SQL statements in widgets would be great to leverage the entire potential of the data uploaded to IBM Process Mining. Lots of important and helpful information cannot be displayed today as it's only SQL-like. I don't think that using...
PINNED Filter UI enables having OR between filters (not just AND)
Users want to filter cases for client1 OR client2. They can't without creating a custom filter with javascript -- which they don't like at all

All ideas

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Positioning of boundary events and flow paths on collapsed/expanded sub-processes

When adding a boundary event to a sub-process, when you expand the sub-process the flow paths from the boundary events do not originate at the actual boundary events and instead sometimes appear center bottom of the expanded sub-process. This make...
5 months ago in Blueworks Live 7 Planned for future release

Tag value should be more flexible to allow REST Response JSON example to handle multiple values for a property

Currently, the IlrTag value is set to a String.Because of this, when setting multiple values to a property, then retrieving this value with REST API: /v1/projects/{projectId}/rules the result is a single string with the multiple values as one comm...
11 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 3 Future consideration

Add the ability to store multi-value Attribute data in Enterprise Content Manager

IBM Content Manager has multi-value attributes giving the ability to store more than 1 value in each record/document set of data. This is something we use all the time for our claim documents. Currently we can add the additional values during the ...
11 months ago in Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files 0 Planned for future release

Control in the Datacap Rulerunner Manager level (Information, Warning, Error) of the messages generated in the Event Viewer

The functionality will be useful for simpler administration of the running applications and better performance, because there will not be tens or hundreds of informational messages within a couple of seconds.The application administrator, the supp...
29 days ago in Datacap 3 Functionality already exists

DeploymentConfig API deprecated in Openshift / Kubernetes

currently the bamoe 8.x operator manages objects (kieserver, business central, smart router) via a deploymentconfig kind.deploymentconfig is deprecated on openshift 4.14, https://access.redhat.com/articles/7041372. I suggest to fix the operator to...
about 1 year ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition 1 Planned for future release

Set default document class to “My Custom Document Class Name” when adding new documents in IBM Content Navigator / BAW

In IBM Content Navigator (ICN) or BAW, when users add a new document, the default document class is currently set to “Document”. For our client, most new documents should belong to the “My Custom Document Class Name” class, but users must manually...
3 months ago in Content Navigator 0 Submitted

Safari 16+ and Firefox Support in BAMOE Canvas

Overview and Problem Statement The goal of this epic is to enable full support for Safari 16+ and Firefox (macOS and RHEL) when using BAMOE Canvas, by incorporating the fixes recently introduced in upstream KIE Canvas 0.23.0.These upstream changes...
30 days ago in Business Automation Manager Open Edition / Version 9.3.x 0 Planned for future release

Create Process Diagrams with AI

It would be a 'game changer' if users are able to auto create BPMN process diagrams in Blueworks by simply attaching process documentation, which details process steps end-to-end. Either through custom or default prompts, it would be highly benefi...
3 months ago in Blueworks Live 2 Planned for future release

Add options to the cleanup tool to permanently delete all versions of specific artifacts

Currently, the cleanup tool (/v1/DBAdmin/cleanup REST API) helps reduce the database size when you have multiple versions of specific artifacts (such as DT or Test Suite). However the latest version and the original version remains in the database...
3 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 7 Future consideration

More granular permission management

The current functionality does not allow a user to select only the operation to be published without granting access to targets, servers, and the administration tab. Currently, the only way to enable a user to select an operation is by assigning t...
6 months ago in Operational Decision Manager 4 Not under consideration